He's been avoiding his job duties due to lots and lots of shiat going on about his campaign finances. This is just another layer of distraction to avoid having to explain why money is turning up missing.

He stopped showing up for votes in the last month or so, which makes a degree of sense since he'schallenging John Cornyn for his Senate seat... except he's not campaigning either. He's gone to one campaign event in Texas and showed up in Cairo, Egypt to criticize Obama. Other than that, he's been nowhere to be found and his campaign is going even more off the rails somehow (following his doge meme advertising he photoshopped Cornyn's head on Chris Christie so he could have a picture of Cornyn hugging Obama.)